Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis